I,like the strange bastard I am,don't have a single saddest moment in gaming. Spoilers,ahoy. I'll attempt to hide them in Spoiler Tags. If not...Wall o text with botched code at the beginning and end of each segment.
<spoiler=Mass Effect 2: Project Oerlord Ending> This is more combined parts fury and sadness. Doctor Archer hooked his autistic little brother to a Virtual Intelligence server (advanced AI by our standards,think a UNSC "Dumb" AI from Halo),designed to interface directly with Geth,a robotic race of VI's. Mobile units,however,generally contain HUNDREDS of Intelligences,working in concert to emulate true Artificial Intelligence (I like to call this a Gestalt Intelligence). All throughout the game,David Archer (The doctor's brother) uses the facility's network and comms in desperate bids for SILENCE. He wants quiet. His screams and roars are demands of silence. Why? There are hundreds of mobile Geth units in the base. That are directly linked to his mind. All communicating simultaneously. His mind translates it into audiable sound to him,and it hurts. In the end,he's just a helpless,begging wreck in a medieval-looking rig. The ENTIRE Overlord DLC is just one huge sob story.
<spoiler=Mirror's Edge Third Act> Let me be frank. Mirror's Edge doesn;t have a happy ending. Yeah,Faith saves her sister. But Faith is now wanted for at least one count of murder,probably two (She kicked Jacknife out of a helicopter hundreds of feet in the air,and she was probably framed for Ropeburn's death),uncountable charges of assault,and is utterly alone,except for her sister Kate. Mercury (Merc) is dead,Celeste betrayed the Runner Network,and is probably dead,or in prison. Miller is also probably dead,since you lose contact with him in the Server Room. Kate is on the run for Pope's murder,as well,so the Connors sisters are wanted criminals,and,quite possibly,enemies of the state. They have no hope of getting a happy ending,period. And that saddened me. Just like ME2's Overlord,this game is a sob story.
<spoiler=The Legend of Dragoon,Beginning of Disc One's Act Three> Lavitz Slambert. Throughout the game thus far,he was a very likeable character. He was socially awkward,but loveably so,cared for his friends,a mama's boy,and was unshakably loyal to his king,refusing to bend to his enemies while imprisoned and leading a glorious assault to the gates of Hell. Well,Hellena Prison. Say the name slowly,you'll get it. Anyways,he was a great guy. Many players (myself included!) developed a connection to him,and when he's killed by Lloyd,in a fairly callous and anti-climcatic manner,it just felt...Improper. He was the gallant knight,the only party member anywhere CLOSE to an understandable human being. And he's just impaled when he attempts to charge at the man who just assaulted his king. To make it even worse? Earlier,he mropised to share a drink with Dart. A promise that's fulfilled in the closing cinematic,with Dart drinking to Lavit's memory,in front of his portrait,with a filled glass in front of it. I was honestly heartbroken.
<spoiler=The Legend of Dragoon Final Scene> Oh,hey! More LoD! Yes. Rose,a party member,is immortal. For eleven thousand years,once every 103 years,she became a genocidal monster ro kill a single baby. Why? This baby would,upon maturity,become the God of Destruction. Eighteen years before the start of the game,she done it again. But this time,failed. Dart's love interest,Shana,was the target,however she had a twin sister. Who Rose killed. But that isn't the worst of it. The game's final boss? God of Destruction. So he dies,and Rose sees no more purpose in her life. As the final dungeon destabilizes around everyone (it was a GODDAMNED MOON,by the way,which crashed onto Earth),she decides to stay behind,and die with her life's only love,Dart's father,Zeig,who was ALSO alive 11,000 years ago,but she thought he died in that war 11,00 years ago. As everyone leaves,Rose gives one last smile as she's engulfed by the fireball of the moon blowing up. Actually...It's the ONLY smile she ever cracks in the game. What makes it sad to me? Well,I grew attached to her,being the tragic monster she is,and she only smiled at the prospect of eternal peace in death,with her love. Yeah.
Getting the feeling LoD has more than it's fair share of sadness in it?
<spoiler=Supreme Commander 2's Ending: Concequences> For such a shitty game,there is one thing done right. Proper characterization. Long story short,one Player Character defects,the next (admittedly,unknowingly) commits terrorisim on a GRAND scale with military grade hardware,and is imprisoned for it,and the third cleans up the mess. And says "Fuck you!" to Doctor Brackman,one of the most powerful and influential people in the universe. At least Brackman's a good guy. This sad story focuses on the second character,Aeon Illuminate Loyalist Thalia Kael. You see,her brother (who happens to be our intelligence officer in the Aeon campaign) is in the final stages of a terminal condition. After being told the concequences of her actions by our third protagonist,you know what she says? That she accepts the concequences,and only wants to see her brother one last time before he dies. The endign cinematic shows Thalia breaking down into tears and anguish before her brother's gravestone,in handcuffs,wearing a prison jumpsuit,with two armed guards. It's safe to assume that she didn't get her wish. This is one nearly made me tear up,even though I knew what was coming.
That's all I got. Enjoy~!
<spoiler=Mass Effect 2: Project Oerlord Ending> This is more combined parts fury and sadness. Doctor Archer hooked his autistic little brother to a Virtual Intelligence server (advanced AI by our standards,think a UNSC "Dumb" AI from Halo),designed to interface directly with Geth,a robotic race of VI's. Mobile units,however,generally contain HUNDREDS of Intelligences,working in concert to emulate true Artificial Intelligence (I like to call this a Gestalt Intelligence). All throughout the game,David Archer (The doctor's brother) uses the facility's network and comms in desperate bids for SILENCE. He wants quiet. His screams and roars are demands of silence. Why? There are hundreds of mobile Geth units in the base. That are directly linked to his mind. All communicating simultaneously. His mind translates it into audiable sound to him,and it hurts. In the end,he's just a helpless,begging wreck in a medieval-looking rig. The ENTIRE Overlord DLC is just one huge sob story.
<spoiler=Mirror's Edge Third Act> Let me be frank. Mirror's Edge doesn;t have a happy ending. Yeah,Faith saves her sister. But Faith is now wanted for at least one count of murder,probably two (She kicked Jacknife out of a helicopter hundreds of feet in the air,and she was probably framed for Ropeburn's death),uncountable charges of assault,and is utterly alone,except for her sister Kate. Mercury (Merc) is dead,Celeste betrayed the Runner Network,and is probably dead,or in prison. Miller is also probably dead,since you lose contact with him in the Server Room. Kate is on the run for Pope's murder,as well,so the Connors sisters are wanted criminals,and,quite possibly,enemies of the state. They have no hope of getting a happy ending,period. And that saddened me. Just like ME2's Overlord,this game is a sob story.
<spoiler=The Legend of Dragoon,Beginning of Disc One's Act Three> Lavitz Slambert. Throughout the game thus far,he was a very likeable character. He was socially awkward,but loveably so,cared for his friends,a mama's boy,and was unshakably loyal to his king,refusing to bend to his enemies while imprisoned and leading a glorious assault to the gates of Hell. Well,Hellena Prison. Say the name slowly,you'll get it. Anyways,he was a great guy. Many players (myself included!) developed a connection to him,and when he's killed by Lloyd,in a fairly callous and anti-climcatic manner,it just felt...Improper. He was the gallant knight,the only party member anywhere CLOSE to an understandable human being. And he's just impaled when he attempts to charge at the man who just assaulted his king. To make it even worse? Earlier,he mropised to share a drink with Dart. A promise that's fulfilled in the closing cinematic,with Dart drinking to Lavit's memory,in front of his portrait,with a filled glass in front of it. I was honestly heartbroken.
<spoiler=The Legend of Dragoon Final Scene> Oh,hey! More LoD! Yes. Rose,a party member,is immortal. For eleven thousand years,once every 103 years,she became a genocidal monster ro kill a single baby. Why? This baby would,upon maturity,become the God of Destruction. Eighteen years before the start of the game,she done it again. But this time,failed. Dart's love interest,Shana,was the target,however she had a twin sister. Who Rose killed. But that isn't the worst of it. The game's final boss? God of Destruction. So he dies,and Rose sees no more purpose in her life. As the final dungeon destabilizes around everyone (it was a GODDAMNED MOON,by the way,which crashed onto Earth),she decides to stay behind,and die with her life's only love,Dart's father,Zeig,who was ALSO alive 11,000 years ago,but she thought he died in that war 11,00 years ago. As everyone leaves,Rose gives one last smile as she's engulfed by the fireball of the moon blowing up. Actually...It's the ONLY smile she ever cracks in the game. What makes it sad to me? Well,I grew attached to her,being the tragic monster she is,and she only smiled at the prospect of eternal peace in death,with her love. Yeah.
Getting the feeling LoD has more than it's fair share of sadness in it?
<spoiler=Supreme Commander 2's Ending: Concequences> For such a shitty game,there is one thing done right. Proper characterization. Long story short,one Player Character defects,the next (admittedly,unknowingly) commits terrorisim on a GRAND scale with military grade hardware,and is imprisoned for it,and the third cleans up the mess. And says "Fuck you!" to Doctor Brackman,one of the most powerful and influential people in the universe. At least Brackman's a good guy. This sad story focuses on the second character,Aeon Illuminate Loyalist Thalia Kael. You see,her brother (who happens to be our intelligence officer in the Aeon campaign) is in the final stages of a terminal condition. After being told the concequences of her actions by our third protagonist,you know what she says? That she accepts the concequences,and only wants to see her brother one last time before he dies. The endign cinematic shows Thalia breaking down into tears and anguish before her brother's gravestone,in handcuffs,wearing a prison jumpsuit,with two armed guards. It's safe to assume that she didn't get her wish. This is one nearly made me tear up,even though I knew what was coming.
That's all I got. Enjoy~!
